Managing Change in Schools : A Practical Handbook

ISBN-13: 9780415065498 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 272 str.

Colin Newton; Tony Tarrant; Colin Newton

Opis

Change has been a major component of education for the past few years as wide-ranging new legislation has been implemented. However, practical advice on how to manage and cope with change in schools has been hard to come by. This book, written by two practising psychologists, seeks to remedy this by providing practical psychological approaches to the management of schools in general and the management of change in particular. Newton and Tarrant outline the mechanics and processes of organizational self-appraisal, and look at how devising objectives can best help a school. They also offer an analysis of the key methods for promoting effective change, and ways to monitor, review and evaluate change. Most importantly, the book shows how change can be managed to increase job satisfaction, and avoid unnecessary stress, conflict, frustration and wasted effort.

Recenzje

`I warmed to this book. It does appreciate the complexity of managing change in a people-oriented profession and.. their approach is both consistent and wlecome in its emphasis on the fact that our task is to promote change in a human `target' (our young people) and to do so largely through the medium of other people (our colleagues)...there is very considerable value in this book, and I like its philosophical stance. It should usefully reinforce or enlighten many of us in our talk as leading school-change agents.' - Headlines

`..a very readable and practical book.' - Managing Schools Today

`Managing Change in Schools is indeed a practical handbook, grounded in a selective application of a range of psychological theory, its ideas are straightforward and clearly expressed. It wears its theory lightly, and is accessible as well as provocative and encouraging. The authors draw on a store of research into schools as organisations and what makes them effective, never forgetting that they are made up of people.' - Educational Psychology in Practice

O autorze

Colin Newton, Tony Tarrant